Graffiti bombing alphabet letters4/10/2024 ![]() Subway cars went all over the five boroughs, so the tags roamed the city, and as more and more people became inspired to make their own marks, graffiti spread with artists jockeying for notoriety. 1972Īlmost overnight, the city had gone from very little graffiti to being covered in it. An article about him, a shy Greek teenager named Demetri (Taki is diminution of Demetri), in The New York Times in the Summer of 1971 led to him being crowned something of the father of modern graffiti. TAKI gets special notice, partly for being especially prolific, with his name appearing on subway cars all over the city, walls on Broadway, office building elevators, Kennedy International Airport and in New Jersey, Connecticut, and upstate New York. The likes of TAKI 183, CAY 161, JUNIOR 161, BARBARA 62, EEL 159, YANK 135 and scores of others follow JULIO 204’s lead and spray paint or marker their nicknames and street numbers mostly on walls, inside and out of subway cars and in tunnels, often scrawled in basic and hurried letters a few-inches-high and other times in more elaborate incarnations, declaring their existence to commuters passing by in letters six-feet tall and in technicolor. Eventually, they discover it’s the work of one person, and the anonymous JULIO 204 becomes renowned in the neighborhood. Others take notice, not sure at first what the letters mean, wondering if it’s a message that something is going to happen on February 4. Julio, a Puerto Rican teenager who lived at 204th street in Inwood, begins throwing up JULIO 204 all over the neighborhood. I exist.” Off the Walls A Brief History of Trespassing in the Greater Metropolitan Area 1968 What started as anonymous teens scratching, marking and spray painting their names on walls to the millions of dollars that work by street artists can now fetch at galleries, the history of this brand of trespassing has always been, at its core, a declaration: “I was here. That was also the night he discovered “that beyond the ‘No Entry’ sign everything happens in higher definition.”īeyond the ‘No Entry’ sign everything happens in higher definition. ![]() Same thing with colours, dark vs light, hot vs cold, you know, differences compliment each other.In describing making his first mark at 16, Banksy said that he “trespassed into some railway tracks and wrote the initials of the graffiti crew (of which I was the only member) on a wall.” He realized then what he could get away with. Dynamics are arranged not only from element to element, letter to letter, but the whole style versus the background. The comfort of bigger sketching area allowed me, after awhile, to separate one letter from another, leaving a lot of empty space in between, where style can breathe instead of being cramped and filled to the last bit. I started using bigger formats of paper just so I could be more free with lines and movement on the surface while drawing, putting an accent to swing, different angles and positions of the letters. It is the bigger part of the „problem solving“. But, luckily, every new obstacle comes as a sweet challenge and a mission for me. Soon, I discovered a new uncharted territory for myself, with many obstacles on the way. After I, arrogantly of course, thought some of the inspiration was exhausted, it came to me that I’ve taken the classic style and lettering approach for granted, and decided it was time to get into it. I wasn’t afraid of experimenting with shapes, colours, forms or letters. I suppose, as any other youngster, I had a spongy brain, everything seemed new, so, with playful naivety and without restraint, I shifted from style to style, technique to technique, not yet to find my own, but to understand what the heck is it all about. I like to draw very different stuff, but you know…letters are my first love! I think my style is pretty easygoing: bold letters, fat outlines, vibrant and dynamic with the classic iconic graffiti elements (arrows, stars, dots…) and other evergreen tricks to do the magic and to give the right final flavour Hi there, I’m Borse, SPRU’ crew, from the north of Italy. Ive tried different styles, the form of Arabic letters and the shapes give a lot of possibilities, doing diverse stuff but at the same time it’s very difficult to maintain the logical form of the original letter and I find it pretty interesting to experiment with. ![]() My name is Exist, I’m a Lebanese graffiti artist representing Beirut city (REK crew (Red Eye Kamikazis) – RBK crew (Rioting Bunch of klowns)Īfter spending some time with latin lettering thought I’d try the same process I use in latin, but doing Arabic letters as it’s my original language. ![]() Back atcha with more crazy dope graffiti alphabets from some style masta writers!
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